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While she is tender towards her 7 children,especially daughter Daphne, she often treats Anthony, unintentionally, with severe harshness, coldness and even cruelty, by consistently
scolding him and pointing mercilessly on his duties [making cruel remarks like ”O my dear son, your father should have been soooo disappointed], without giving him room for
a break or even mourning his dead father [by saying ”Stop mourning, it’s ten years now, while she herself takes all the time for mourning]
So Anthony thinks mistakingly that his mother only uses him in his role as Viscount and loves him less then the other children.